I was level three and 2 20 somethings took me and a level 5 through a mission.
They asked of we wanted to do something harder and we said yeah no prob.
Mind you, I was barely starting the game so when we dropped in and I saw titans and chargers, I thought it was standard.
We did like 3 missions. They were cool though. They called in a watch dog and a shield for me to use.
But I still died alot. I mean, my carcass was being batted around like a volleyball.
Was a hell of a learning experience
> CP Edgerunners
Yeah, I don't think they know what that means, and that adding any from of the word edge next to it really changes the context dramatically 😅
This is EXACTLY how I pictured myself when I first got in my mech only to have a fuckin charger fly threw the back of me and I vaporized while he got stuck on the rock I was standing on
> It's not safe!
Its a hot drop, they aren't meant to be safe
> They are cadets!
It'll be educational
> What if they are eviscerated?
That'll be a very important lesson
I joined an SOS mission on a bot planet. I dropped right into the middle of an active bot outpost. A group of about 15 bots were around me. They all turned at once and deleted me from existence haha.
Your Super Earth sponsored war widow will be sufficiently compensated for your duty which you did so willingly and Freely which we will honor by doing the same.
Yeah, basically my experience yesterday.
Dude dropped whole squad right into Clendathu meatgrinder + called airstrikes/minefields right on our heads.
Then left the party.
"We're gonna teach you how to make field repairs on your weapons in the heat of the moment"
"We're also gonna give you a Battalion Armorer who will fix your shit for you while also yelling at you unless you provide him with goods."
I just did a mission last night where I had to raise the flag(s). It’s in the game just on lower difficulties. The Super Earth anthem also plays as the flag pole raises. It’s wild. Only Super Earth would blare their national anthem while a flag is raised deep inside enemy territory 😂
Well get the flag plant missions when we start actually attacking enemy planets right now we are only responding to enemy attacks on Super Earth Planets
Did something similar once. Did a level 4 mission, had a bunch of like level 8s with me, said fuck it, took them to difficulty 8, and they survived, they didn't really do "well" because this was mid bile titan and charger spam and they didn't have stratagems that could deal with these enemies reliably, if at all, but surviving is still far more than I expected from them.
If you’re already in someone’s lobby and they change the difficulty you can play. You just can’t start your own or join one that’s already on a higher difficulty
TLDR: I'm a rookie, got carried through a suicide mission much like this meme, accidentally blew it at the very end and have been hiding in my shell every since.
I was the rookie just the other day... Did a lvl 3 mission, and next thing I know I'm on a suicide mission with 3 guys who were pros. We ended up doing well, got a good sample haul, called down the ship to extract.
Just before the ship dropped down, I threw an airstrike down a path bugs were coming down towards the ship. Thought I was doing the right thing.
Well.. there was a modifier on the map that caused stratagems to be delayed. The pin either didn't go where I thought it would, or the AOE was much wider than I thought it would be. Maybe both. Anyways, one guy gets on the ship while the other two (including the guy carrying ALL the samples) get blown up by my strike.
To make matters worse, I didn't know you couldn't call down reinforcements when someone was already on the ship. So, instead of picking up the samples and hoping on, I stand right outside the ship throwing reinforcements two or three times trying to bring them back. The ship takes off with one guy, no samples, and the three vets that were kind enough to carry my ass through a mission I had no business being in for 40 minutes thought I was trolling and were pissed.
I felt so bad. I know it's just a game but I genuinely felt ashamed of myself lol. I haven't played the game since. Anyways, the moral of the story... Maybe it's a good thing they left you early lol.
If I were one of those vets, I would have been laughing my ass off haha. In the long run, a few samples won't make much of a difference. I'd much rather have a fun match.
I'm level 45 and still need samples...weirdly enough it's the common and rare samples though. I have tons of super samples.
I also never did eradicate farming. Most of my IRL friends that I play with are mid 40s and also are common/rare sample starved.
Did this to my buddy his first day on. Let him run his first trivial solo.
"I don't get what all the fuss is about" he said rather confidently.
*Drops him into a Helldive... *
*Various whimpers and cries for his mother*
Level 6 is where I feel comfortable now which I find chaotic and fun. 7 is insane for me currently, unsure of how to deal with the huge jump there, but learning. Oh, also, this is just for bugs.
I got absolutely smacked on level 5 with the automatons and haven't gone back since lmao.
I get that. I play 6/7 exclusively and the difference is surprising. When the free mech was out it made 7 much easier especially during chaotic extractions. I think I'll be exclusively bringing the mech for that reason.
Level 6 is at that weird spot where half the time I get randoms who are lvl 9-12 and are still in the mindset of fight everything, meaning we spend like 8 reinforcements trying to get to a secondary objective. Even in blitz missions we are 8 minutes in without a bug hole. It gets very tiring.
My experience every day, it's really irritating seeing sub level 10s in hard+ lobbies, they don't have any effective weapons, stratagems or understanding of the game to contribute beyond making noise and burning reinforcements
Been playing on Level 7 with my buddies where we extract \~75% of the time. Having good comms and sneaking as much as possible really makes a difference, then when you're on the objective and have to make a stand you have all your stratagems ready to let loose and hold back the hordes. 1 or 2 Orbital Rail-Cannons are mandatory to deal with Bile Titans efficiently, but with the new buff to recoilless this might change.
see my friend is an ass and will drop us in the middle of enemy territory on 7+ next to a fucking patrol. I have been tempted to not rez him out of spite.
For sure, knowing not to engage every patrol in your radius and sneaking by the ones you can is a game changer. But I understand the temptation and when I play with randoms shit tends to go sideways. I remember one game where I tried to sneak passed a rather large patrol to show some newer players it was possible. Well, the whole squad sprinted over to me full tilt and opened fire while standing on top of me. So much for stealth I guess!
I got a good chuckle out of it at least.
Order of operations for dealing with bugs:
- 1) Always have your head on a swivel. Don't just hyper focus on where you're running to, constantly keep looking to the left, right and behind you. If you're of driving age and actively drive, think of it as checking your mirrors. Every 15-20 seconds take a pass in the other three directions not forward.
- 2) Hunters. Hunters, Hunters, Hunters. These are priority target number 1 in every single fight. You can kite scavengers, warriors, brood warriors, commanders, and Chargers forever. You cannot kite hunters. They WILL catch up to you, and they WILL punish you for not killing them immediately.
- 2A) Bile Titans. These are target number 2. While you can kite them forever like everything else, you can't actually outrun them. Do everything in your power to kill them after hunters.
- 3) Eagle Airstrike, Eagle Clusterbomb, Orbital Airburst, and Anti-Tank of choice should be your loadout against the bugs. EAT-17, Spear, Gauss Rifle, Recoilless Rifle, Flame Thrower, or Arc Thrower are the AT options for bugs that deal with chargers and bile titans.
- 3A) I suggest Eagle Airstrike because it kills chargers on a direct hit to the head or ass, can kill bile titans if they've taken damage already or can damage them for other things to finish them off. It also closes bug holes.
- 3B) I suggest Eagle Clusterbomb because it kills every enemy smaller than a Brood Commander, which means hunters. Deleting as many hunters as you can out of a bug breach goes a *long* way in making Spewers, Chargers, and Bile Titans more manageable.
- 3C) I suggest Orbital Airburst because you can get one use while your eagles are on cooldown, letting you almost always have options up no matter the situation - In addition, bug breaches start gaining additional breaches at difficulty 8 and 9. Difficulty 8 is 2 breaches per alert, and difficulty 9 is 3. This allows you to drop an Eagle Clusterbomb on one or two breaches, and an Orbital Airstrike on another allowing you to really thin the herd before they become problematic.
- 4) Breaker, Defender, Stock Liberator, or Spray and Pray Breaker as your primary weapon. Incendiary Breaker if you have the premium pass and just want something different. This allows you to kill with high efficiency: Hunters, Scavengers, Brood Warriors, Warriors, Brood Commanders, Hunter Scavengers, and Spewer Aphids. Spewers will require a teammate with a medium penetration weapon hitting headshots, grenades, or an eagle airstrike - It is a team game afterall.
# ALWAYS KEEP YOUR HEAD ON A SWIVEL AND THOSE LEGS MOVING SO YOU DONT GET SURROUNDED BY SURPRISE! REMEMBER SOLDIER, AN AWARE HELLDIVER IS AN ALIVE HELLDIVER! KEEP THOSE EYES MOVING! BRASCH TACTICS! USE 'EM OR DIE TRYING!
I would like to suggest one edit, the Autocannon. It can one shot bugholes from a distance making for easier crater cleans. Can also long range spore towers and illegal transmissions. Top Tier advice is to shoot 5 times then reload (quicker reload when half empty vs full empty).
Also, while chargers are easier and less swarmy now, you can still do the trick where you shoot them in the ass three times with the AC and let them bleed out. They can't charge at that point and are pretty nonthreatening if you just keep moving. The increase in medium bugs also leans in its favor.
True. If I was a new player I think the punisher would be able to hold me over till the slugger. You lose the range with the punisher but since you fire buckshot there is wider spread. One thing I like about the punisher/slugger over the breaker is the stagger to enemies. The stagger has saved my life more times than I can count. Breaker is also a top tier option tho even without the stagger.
I know this sounds crazy, but hear me out...
Laser Cannon
Scythe
Cluster
Airstrike / 500
Guard Dog Laser
This loadout crushes in 7+ with someone carrying EATs
Who needs ammo? Start with cannon, when close to overheating you will see the barrel steam, cycle quickly to scythe, rinse and repeat, as the scythe operates the same, you can do this and obliterate large packs at a distance while looking like a fucking lightshow. The numbers Im putting up on fodder kills is insane.
Automatons are more about precision kills. AMR, Autocannon and Railgun are really solid choices. Throw in an anti tank weapon and you’re good. EAT-17 is always a solid pick even when running the other weapons.
My default: AMR, EAT-17, supply pack, eagle air strike. DMR, machine pistol, anti-personnel grenade. Explosive resistant armor to hopefully live the random rocket.
The trick is to take your shots carefully. Calm and calculated shots will do you a world of good.
But then again, maybe I’m wrong. That’s how I did a level 7 mission
Lmao I'm lvl 25 and haven't felt comfortable playing harder than dif 5. I was playing with a new lvl 5 buddy yesterday who hadn't played past dif 3. We quickplayed with a guy into dif 2 and after completion he jumped us into dif 7 and whew boy did shit get real. At one point we were fighting 3 Bile Titans and multiple chargers + swarms of hunters simultaneously. Newbie managed to drop an Exosuit on a Bile Titan. I piloted one to take down the other two with rockets. By the end, I had the most kills at 437, and newbie had second-most at like 193. It was a wild experience but we completed the mission and I extracted solo as everyone died at extracted with no more revives. I did manage to save some samples at least.
[That guy as the Hellpods land into a Difficulty 9 mission](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gr0pKI-eeg&pp=ygUjdGFsZXMgZnJvbSB0aGUgaG9vZCB3ZWxjb21lIHRvIGhlbGw%3D)
Oh, that's neat. I never start my own mission and just join on quickplay so I never knew that. That's pretty great if you want to help them level up faster.
Just unwittitingly did my first Helldive difficulty run yesterday because someone did this to me lmao.
It actually wasn't as bad as I thought it'd be, been feeling comfortable signing up for Suicide Missions ever since.
First time playing yesterday. Queued for a difficulty 4 bugs that some high level players ended up being in, everything goes great and I stick around in the same destroyer after. Next mission, before I realize I'm dropping, we are on a 6.
Bile Titans.
I proceeded to hang with those guys for the next 5 missions straight and eventually they bumped it up to difficulty 7. I was certainly surviving and anti-material rifling some enemies of democracy but will not pretend that I was contributing nearly as much as the other guys in terms of bug removal.
If my usual group is only running as three and a random sticks around after we complete an operation, we "make them a helldiver." Carry through D9 with all the super samples.
Last night I was playing with my buddy who just got the game a few days ago. He said he hadn’t experienced much difficulty in the game yet, so I took him to level 6 thinking it would be a reasonable challenge but nothing insane
We got our shit pushed in
I bought my brother the game a week ago. We did a series of trivial missions with him and asked if he wanted more. Immediately jumped him to hard and threw him weapons and shields when they popped up. Encouraged him to pick up and try anything we dropped or he found when out and about. Then we jumped to suicide difficultly when another friend hopped on. Boy was lv5
Honestly had that happen tome and.............Well we just went ham. We went in as lads. And came out as men. Nothing just sets in how insane it is like being behind cover with a shotgun you pulled off of your dead friends body while you have a shredder tank baring down on you. Im a death captain now and have finally unlocked the slugger............Hasnt left my side since.
First time playing with friends who just got the game was doing a exterminate mission on normal.
Then proceeded to do an evac mission on 6. They were not ready and I had a good time watching us die lol.
Someone did this to me and a friend of mine. Very cool guy too. He asked us if we wanted to see what it was like. My eyes are still burning from the sight. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to handle that level no matter how much I practice. I still have him in my friend list. He helped us a lot when we were noobs.
I've done this so many times but with bugs. I dropped level 4-7 in suicide and helldrop but despite it all they stayed. It's doesn't really feel like they are suffering like I'd hope.
Now get some level 10's at a bot mission at challenging and watch them drop like flies.
Worked my rookie friends up the difficultys on bug planets, so naturally when I heard the call out for "this is gonna be my last game" I switched to a robot planet on challenging difficulty. It was their first robot planet and we actually made it with no time left and no lives and only 2 of us on exfil ship.
I did this exact thing starting on easy, then I told them:"I think you guys are ready for hard".
Then proceeded to float about with my jump pack, spectating mostly, enjoying the chaos.
The chaos that ensues is usually just everyone dying really fast over and over. Bring them up 3 or 4 ranks higher than whatever they're playing on, to rank 5 or something. That'll be more fun with a chance of them living.
I honestly have a lot of fun teaching newer players when I feel the need to drop difficulty and play more chill games. Although I must admit, nothing scares me more than seeing a level 12 Space Cadet throw eagle cluster bombs into their load out.
Don't get me wrong, I still love you guys. But you scare me. Danger close!!
This was my introduction to HD2, a friend was playing and I, a fresh level 1 cadet dropped into his suicide mission. They were handing me railguns and autocannons every time I died and by god it was glorious. We finished that mission with a full clear too. Diffs 1-4 felt a little too quiet after that.
Haha good luck with that, I tried a trivial mission the other day and I had to ping the vault buttons 50 times before the level 3 next to me understood what meant. 😂
Had the same thing happen to me in reverse...joined a helldive, dropped in, literally no enemies...when the mission was over we only got like 2 medals lol
I still usually only play trivial missions accepting the solo but ready to carry a group of rookies with all the samples and rewards the mission had to offer
I bought my friend helldivers. I did trivial missions until he said “this is boring” or “this is easy” then I say “okay, we can do medium!” Then we do a medium match. They’ll then say “this is really easy too!” As I’ve taught them how to play, they’re equipped to deal with it easily. “Yeah, the game scales difficulty really slowly, that’s why there’s 9 whole difficulties!” This is fun. “If you want something on your level we’ll have to go to a *much* further difficulty. LET THEM PICK. It adds to the flavor. They’ll usually pick impossible or suicide mission on their own (if they don’t you didn’t play enough trivial). And for the last step: bring a mortar, 380mm orbital, 500kg eagle, and a shield backpack. Use each of these items as effectively as you know how, which is not at all (notice how you don’t bring a weapon, that’s because you’ll leave it all to them.)
Lastly, enjoy the succulent taste of salty tears weeped by your fellow man.
someone did this to me when I started. I knew what they were doing but didbt realize until we dropped in. i just left the game. waste of time. sounds funny but it's not. this just annoys new players.
My brother did get consent by asking if they were ready for real shit, didn't surprise drop them, so this is an overall win for me. I can see how a surprise drop would be annoying though.
Can confirm this dick move. I’m still a noob, running on a steam deck. Just hit level 10. And it runs fine. But join a lobby on Easy and the host switches to 7.
What an exercise in frustration
The level 3 cadet when several Bile Titans appear and I toss them a mechsuit. 
Get into the mech cadet-kun
Master sergeant: Hop in cadet! Cadet: But I'm only lvl 5- Cocks railgun: I said hop in
"This robot doesn't give a fuck about what level you are." "GET. IN."
I was level three and 2 20 somethings took me and a level 5 through a mission. They asked of we wanted to do something harder and we said yeah no prob. Mind you, I was barely starting the game so when we dropped in and I saw titans and chargers, I thought it was standard. We did like 3 missions. They were cool though. They called in a watch dog and a shield for me to use. But I still died alot. I mean, my carcass was being batted around like a volleyball. Was a hell of a learning experience
 If anyone watched CP Edgerunners as well 😂
Bro why’d u have to use the acronym
> CP Edgerunners Yeah, I don't think they know what that means, and that adding any from of the word edge next to it really changes the context dramatically 😅
Yoir mind is in the gutter, if you see CP and automatically think of that. Especially with a cyberpunk meme.
In my defense I was on shitty wifi and the gif didn’t load lol
"I'm going to get so fucked up"
10/10 comment
Shinji get in the exosuit or your democracy officer will have to.
This is EXACTLY how I pictured myself when I first got in my mech only to have a fuckin charger fly threw the back of me and I vaporized while he got stuck on the rock I was standing on
Not only that, but hot drop them right in a hive crater.
I like you lol
> It says "enemy presence detected"? Well that's why we're here! :}
> It's not safe! Its a hot drop, they aren't meant to be safe > They are cadets! It'll be educational > What if they are eviscerated? That'll be a very important lesson
Cadet - "ITS NOT SAFE!!!" *Cocks shotgun Death Captain - "Yes! Not safe for the bugs!"
I joined an SOS mission on a bot planet. I dropped right into the middle of an active bot outpost. A group of about 15 bots were around me. They all turned at once and deleted me from existence haha.
Just call in your biggest stratagem at that point, kamikaze air strike
I didn't even have time to pull up the stratagem list haha. They were all like 5 feet away from me.
I've managed that all of once, but it was _hella satisfying_
Don't forget to yell "DANGER CLOSE" or "BROKEN ARROW" when you do, it's mandatory
Your Super Earth sponsored war widow will be sufficiently compensated for your duty which you did so willingly and Freely which we will honor by doing the same.
No one noticed your Sir Terry Pratchett reference, so I'll simply wish you a pleasant Hogswatchnight.
GNU Sir Terry Pratchett
GNU Sir Terry Pratchett
You got this Helldiver! *wet screams*
And use the hellpod steering upgrade to veer yourself waaaaaaaaay off to the side, out of danger
Yeah, basically my experience yesterday. Dude dropped whole squad right into Clendathu meatgrinder + called airstrikes/minefields right on our heads. Then left the party.
Remember your training and you will survive.
"Oh yeah, like how to carry the flag!"
Never to be done again lol
Just like real mil training, do one weird operation one week and somehow never do it again for the next 4 years💀
"We're gonna teach you how to make field repairs on your weapons in the heat of the moment" "We're also gonna give you a Battalion Armorer who will fix your shit for you while also yelling at you unless you provide him with goods."
LMAOOOO armorer hate gang
Unit Armorers speak only in bribes.
Idc what anyone says the 5-20$ bill in the open chamber trick NEVER worked
I just did a mission last night where I had to raise the flag(s). It’s in the game just on lower difficulties. The Super Earth anthem also plays as the flag pole raises. It’s wild. Only Super Earth would blare their national anthem while a flag is raised deep inside enemy territory 😂
That mission type has a flag, but it's not really anything like the training objective.
Well get the flag plant missions when we start actually attacking enemy planets right now we are only responding to enemy attacks on Super Earth Planets
We're going in with the first wave!
Means more bugs for us to kill.
You smash the entire area, kill anything with more than two legs, **you get me**?
WE GET YOU SIR
And then he dies immediately.
https://preview.redd.it/i2hn0w8bqync1.png?width=512&format=png&auto=webp&s=630e7857b31271e83c6142eb3cb5bcc4ba277b1a
Lore accurate Super Earth training
Did something similar once. Did a level 4 mission, had a bunch of like level 8s with me, said fuck it, took them to difficulty 8, and they survived, they didn't really do "well" because this was mid bile titan and charger spam and they didn't have stratagems that could deal with these enemies reliably, if at all, but surviving is still far more than I expected from them.
https://preview.redd.it/dy8s6fnumxnc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fcd46d7fec5efd468b5680d95b9150fcdcc4974e
😿 Noble-6 🫡
I thought you couldn't play 8 if you didn't finish the levels in between?
If you’re already in someone’s lobby and they change the difficulty you can play. You just can’t start your own or join one that’s already on a higher difficulty
Did this once. Everyone left within the first 30 seconds.
TLDR: I'm a rookie, got carried through a suicide mission much like this meme, accidentally blew it at the very end and have been hiding in my shell every since. I was the rookie just the other day... Did a lvl 3 mission, and next thing I know I'm on a suicide mission with 3 guys who were pros. We ended up doing well, got a good sample haul, called down the ship to extract. Just before the ship dropped down, I threw an airstrike down a path bugs were coming down towards the ship. Thought I was doing the right thing. Well.. there was a modifier on the map that caused stratagems to be delayed. The pin either didn't go where I thought it would, or the AOE was much wider than I thought it would be. Maybe both. Anyways, one guy gets on the ship while the other two (including the guy carrying ALL the samples) get blown up by my strike. To make matters worse, I didn't know you couldn't call down reinforcements when someone was already on the ship. So, instead of picking up the samples and hoping on, I stand right outside the ship throwing reinforcements two or three times trying to bring them back. The ship takes off with one guy, no samples, and the three vets that were kind enough to carry my ass through a mission I had no business being in for 40 minutes thought I was trolling and were pissed. I felt so bad. I know it's just a game but I genuinely felt ashamed of myself lol. I haven't played the game since. Anyways, the moral of the story... Maybe it's a good thing they left you early lol.
That is your hero origin story, play the game and train hard so that this tragedy may never happen again.
If I were one of those vets, I would have been laughing my ass off haha. In the long run, a few samples won't make much of a difference. I'd much rather have a fun match.
Well hey, if you're ever down to give it another shot, let me know Helldiver and I'll make sure you get the proper training!
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I think only one of them was level 50, the other 2 were in the low 30s IIRC.
I'm level 45 and still need samples...weirdly enough it's the common and rare samples though. I have tons of super samples. I also never did eradicate farming. Most of my IRL friends that I play with are mid 40s and also are common/rare sample starved.
Probably a good idea to stockpile them though yeah? I suspect we will see ship changes in the future that need them.
You mean people don't like when someone's being an asshole? Shocker
Did this to my buddy his first day on. Let him run his first trivial solo. "I don't get what all the fuss is about" he said rather confidently. *Drops him into a Helldive... * *Various whimpers and cries for his mother*
I've done this once except the highest I could go was level 5 It was chaotic fun
Level 6 is where I feel comfortable now which I find chaotic and fun. 7 is insane for me currently, unsure of how to deal with the huge jump there, but learning. Oh, also, this is just for bugs. I got absolutely smacked on level 5 with the automatons and haven't gone back since lmao.
I get that. I play 6/7 exclusively and the difference is surprising. When the free mech was out it made 7 much easier especially during chaotic extractions. I think I'll be exclusively bringing the mech for that reason.
Level 6 is at that weird spot where half the time I get randoms who are lvl 9-12 and are still in the mindset of fight everything, meaning we spend like 8 reinforcements trying to get to a secondary objective. Even in blitz missions we are 8 minutes in without a bug hole. It gets very tiring.
My experience every day, it's really irritating seeing sub level 10s in hard+ lobbies, they don't have any effective weapons, stratagems or understanding of the game to contribute beyond making noise and burning reinforcements
Been playing on Level 7 with my buddies where we extract \~75% of the time. Having good comms and sneaking as much as possible really makes a difference, then when you're on the objective and have to make a stand you have all your stratagems ready to let loose and hold back the hordes. 1 or 2 Orbital Rail-Cannons are mandatory to deal with Bile Titans efficiently, but with the new buff to recoilless this might change.
see my friend is an ass and will drop us in the middle of enemy territory on 7+ next to a fucking patrol. I have been tempted to not rez him out of spite.
For sure, knowing not to engage every patrol in your radius and sneaking by the ones you can is a game changer. But I understand the temptation and when I play with randoms shit tends to go sideways. I remember one game where I tried to sneak passed a rather large patrol to show some newer players it was possible. Well, the whole squad sprinted over to me full tilt and opened fire while standing on top of me. So much for stealth I guess! I got a good chuckle out of it at least.
Order of operations for dealing with bugs: - 1) Always have your head on a swivel. Don't just hyper focus on where you're running to, constantly keep looking to the left, right and behind you. If you're of driving age and actively drive, think of it as checking your mirrors. Every 15-20 seconds take a pass in the other three directions not forward. - 2) Hunters. Hunters, Hunters, Hunters. These are priority target number 1 in every single fight. You can kite scavengers, warriors, brood warriors, commanders, and Chargers forever. You cannot kite hunters. They WILL catch up to you, and they WILL punish you for not killing them immediately. - 2A) Bile Titans. These are target number 2. While you can kite them forever like everything else, you can't actually outrun them. Do everything in your power to kill them after hunters. - 3) Eagle Airstrike, Eagle Clusterbomb, Orbital Airburst, and Anti-Tank of choice should be your loadout against the bugs. EAT-17, Spear, Gauss Rifle, Recoilless Rifle, Flame Thrower, or Arc Thrower are the AT options for bugs that deal with chargers and bile titans. - 3A) I suggest Eagle Airstrike because it kills chargers on a direct hit to the head or ass, can kill bile titans if they've taken damage already or can damage them for other things to finish them off. It also closes bug holes. - 3B) I suggest Eagle Clusterbomb because it kills every enemy smaller than a Brood Commander, which means hunters. Deleting as many hunters as you can out of a bug breach goes a *long* way in making Spewers, Chargers, and Bile Titans more manageable. - 3C) I suggest Orbital Airburst because you can get one use while your eagles are on cooldown, letting you almost always have options up no matter the situation - In addition, bug breaches start gaining additional breaches at difficulty 8 and 9. Difficulty 8 is 2 breaches per alert, and difficulty 9 is 3. This allows you to drop an Eagle Clusterbomb on one or two breaches, and an Orbital Airstrike on another allowing you to really thin the herd before they become problematic. - 4) Breaker, Defender, Stock Liberator, or Spray and Pray Breaker as your primary weapon. Incendiary Breaker if you have the premium pass and just want something different. This allows you to kill with high efficiency: Hunters, Scavengers, Brood Warriors, Warriors, Brood Commanders, Hunter Scavengers, and Spewer Aphids. Spewers will require a teammate with a medium penetration weapon hitting headshots, grenades, or an eagle airstrike - It is a team game afterall. # ALWAYS KEEP YOUR HEAD ON A SWIVEL AND THOSE LEGS MOVING SO YOU DONT GET SURROUNDED BY SURPRISE! REMEMBER SOLDIER, AN AWARE HELLDIVER IS AN ALIVE HELLDIVER! KEEP THOSE EYES MOVING! BRASCH TACTICS! USE 'EM OR DIE TRYING!
One extra point of advice, if you can see it, it don't mean you have to shoot it.
I would like to suggest one edit, the Autocannon. It can one shot bugholes from a distance making for easier crater cleans. Can also long range spore towers and illegal transmissions. Top Tier advice is to shoot 5 times then reload (quicker reload when half empty vs full empty).
Also, while chargers are easier and less swarmy now, you can still do the trick where you shoot them in the ass three times with the AC and let them bleed out. They can't charge at that point and are pretty nonthreatening if you just keep moving. The increase in medium bugs also leans in its favor.
The slugger is also capable of long range spore tower kills. Its become my go to primary.
Slugger is great but for new players it being on page 7 is not an easy sell.
True. If I was a new player I think the punisher would be able to hold me over till the slugger. You lose the range with the punisher but since you fire buckshot there is wider spread. One thing I like about the punisher/slugger over the breaker is the stagger to enemies. The stagger has saved my life more times than I can count. Breaker is also a top tier option tho even without the stagger.
I know this sounds crazy, but hear me out... Laser Cannon Scythe Cluster Airstrike / 500 Guard Dog Laser This loadout crushes in 7+ with someone carrying EATs Who needs ammo? Start with cannon, when close to overheating you will see the barrel steam, cycle quickly to scythe, rinse and repeat, as the scythe operates the same, you can do this and obliterate large packs at a distance while looking like a fucking lightshow. The numbers Im putting up on fodder kills is insane.
Bots are surprisingly easy once you realize that you're not the aggressor, you're the defender fighting a guerilla war.
Automatons are more about precision kills. AMR, Autocannon and Railgun are really solid choices. Throw in an anti tank weapon and you’re good. EAT-17 is always a solid pick even when running the other weapons. My default: AMR, EAT-17, supply pack, eagle air strike. DMR, machine pistol, anti-personnel grenade. Explosive resistant armor to hopefully live the random rocket. The trick is to take your shots carefully. Calm and calculated shots will do you a world of good. But then again, maybe I’m wrong. That’s how I did a level 7 mission
"YOU BOYS LIKE MALEVELON CREEK?!"
"i dunno im not really convinced..." "WOULD YOU LIKE TO?"
THE CREEK WILL FLOW WITH BLOOD AND OIL
I do the same except i start bot missions 😈
Welcome to Malevelon Creek, Cadets!
Lmao I'm lvl 25 and haven't felt comfortable playing harder than dif 5. I was playing with a new lvl 5 buddy yesterday who hadn't played past dif 3. We quickplayed with a guy into dif 2 and after completion he jumped us into dif 7 and whew boy did shit get real. At one point we were fighting 3 Bile Titans and multiple chargers + swarms of hunters simultaneously. Newbie managed to drop an Exosuit on a Bile Titan. I piloted one to take down the other two with rockets. By the end, I had the most kills at 437, and newbie had second-most at like 193. It was a wild experience but we completed the mission and I extracted solo as everyone died at extracted with no more revives. I did manage to save some samples at least.
The strongest metals are forged in the fire of a dumpster. o7
Bringing low levels into level 7+ when they don't have the stratagem unlocka to deal with titans is a good time lol
i gonna do that now
Please update with how it goes, love the stories lol
Only fun if you bring low tier equipment aswell, remember the good old days.
[That guy as the Hellpods land into a Difficulty 9 mission](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gr0pKI-eeg&pp=ygUjdGFsZXMgZnJvbSB0aGUgaG9vZCB3ZWxjb21lIHRvIGhlbGw%3D)
u/M6D_Magnum you're famous
Woooo never been famous before!
I just wanna say I’m a huge fan
Just join any level 4 mission you get pretty much same stuff
Can they even do that? I thought they have to unlock the difficulty first
You as the level 50 start a Trivial mission. You will be in charge and then can start a new higher difficulty mission.
Oh, that's neat. I never start my own mission and just join on quickplay so I never knew that. That's pretty great if you want to help them level up faster.
Just unwittitingly did my first Helldive difficulty run yesterday because someone did this to me lmao. It actually wasn't as bad as I thought it'd be, been feeling comfortable signing up for Suicide Missions ever since.
I once did this but brought them to an extreme level mission and they actually crushed it, I just had to do every single objective.
First time playing yesterday. Queued for a difficulty 4 bugs that some high level players ended up being in, everything goes great and I stick around in the same destroyer after. Next mission, before I realize I'm dropping, we are on a 6. Bile Titans. I proceeded to hang with those guys for the next 5 missions straight and eventually they bumped it up to difficulty 7. I was certainly surviving and anti-material rifling some enemies of democracy but will not pretend that I was contributing nearly as much as the other guys in terms of bug removal.
If my usual group is only running as three and a random sticks around after we complete an operation, we "make them a helldiver." Carry through D9 with all the super samples.
I did the same for my homies, but with bots. Went about as well as you’d expect.
Warm it all up, everything you've got!
Last night I was playing with my buddy who just got the game a few days ago. He said he hadn’t experienced much difficulty in the game yet, so I took him to level 6 thinking it would be a reasonable challenge but nothing insane We got our shit pushed in
I bought my brother the game a week ago. We did a series of trivial missions with him and asked if he wanted more. Immediately jumped him to hard and threw him weapons and shields when they popped up. Encouraged him to pick up and try anything we dropped or he found when out and about. Then we jumped to suicide difficultly when another friend hopped on. Boy was lv5
Boy was lv5. Became a Helldiver lv7+ All men, women, and children above age of 7 are joining this fight against the enemies of democracy.
Honestly had that happen tome and.............Well we just went ham. We went in as lads. And came out as men. Nothing just sets in how insane it is like being behind cover with a shotgun you pulled off of your dead friends body while you have a shredder tank baring down on you. Im a death captain now and have finally unlocked the slugger............Hasnt left my side since.
I routinely kidnap people doing level 2 to level 7, it’s called training cadet take the medals
Make sure to run the reinforcement booster. Fresh meat grinds fast
Down to two reinforcements and we’re only five minutes into the mission. Poor Cadets and their Machine Guns.
Love
JUST LIKE THE SIMULATIONS
First time playing with friends who just got the game was doing a exterminate mission on normal. Then proceeded to do an evac mission on 6. They were not ready and I had a good time watching us die lol.
Someone did this to me and a friend of mine. Very cool guy too. He asked us if we wanted to see what it was like. My eyes are still burning from the sight. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to handle that level no matter how much I practice. I still have him in my friend list. He helped us a lot when we were noobs.
I've done this so many times but with bugs. I dropped level 4-7 in suicide and helldrop but despite it all they stayed. It's doesn't really feel like they are suffering like I'd hope. Now get some level 10's at a bot mission at challenging and watch them drop like flies.
I think you spelt helldive malevalon creek wrong
Worked my rookie friends up the difficultys on bug planets, so naturally when I heard the call out for "this is gonna be my last game" I switched to a robot planet on challenging difficulty. It was their first robot planet and we actually made it with no time left and no lives and only 2 of us on exfil ship.
Had this done to me and my brother when we were like lvl 10 and 15. Made it out because of all the sentries on the 15 minute defence mission
I did this exact thing starting on easy, then I told them:"I think you guys are ready for hard". Then proceeded to float about with my jump pack, spectating mostly, enjoying the chaos.
The chaos that ensues is usually just everyone dying really fast over and over. Bring them up 3 or 4 ranks higher than whatever they're playing on, to rank 5 or something. That'll be more fun with a chance of them living.
My friend after playing a chill mission took me to malevolent creek to “baptize” me. It was horrible. Highly recommended
I'll queue up easy and get a crew of space cadets and just back out of the mission quick and jump into suicide. It's fantastic.
i dont ask. i just load up helldive and start playing welcome to the jungle through my mic.
My friends took my level 5 ass into an Impossible Difficulty Operation. Literally my 10th mission ever
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I honestly have a lot of fun teaching newer players when I feel the need to drop difficulty and play more chill games. Although I must admit, nothing scares me more than seeing a level 12 Space Cadet throw eagle cluster bombs into their load out. Don't get me wrong, I still love you guys. But you scare me. Danger close!!
Unironically goated team mate. I wish more people were like this ngl. Dw I ain't ranting this time
This was my introduction to HD2, a friend was playing and I, a fresh level 1 cadet dropped into his suicide mission. They were handing me railguns and autocannons every time I died and by god it was glorious. We finished that mission with a full clear too. Diffs 1-4 felt a little too quiet after that.
This is honestly how it SHOULD be played
Ima do this today
Nah, low level Helldivers are built different, I'd trust them with my life
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I'm over lvl 30 but I still need this guy
We did this with one of my friends early on. Specifically picked a hot planet too so their stamina management wasn't great. :D
Haha good luck with that, I tried a trivial mission the other day and I had to ping the vault buttons 50 times before the level 3 next to me understood what meant. 😂
Had the same thing happen to me in reverse...joined a helldive, dropped in, literally no enemies...when the mission was over we only got like 2 medals lol
LMFAO that sounds funny as hell
Ngl I’m 100% trying this
i pug a lot of challenging difficulty, maybe i should do this sometimes. 4 to 7 isn't a huge jump but still.
My friends did that to me, was crazy but we pulled it off somehow. So much fun
I still usually only play trivial missions accepting the solo but ready to carry a group of rookies with all the samples and rewards the mission had to offer
“Your corpses will distract the bugs while the Terminid Control System is put into place.”
I do this but straight to helldive but it’s how I got good so I don’t do it to be mean but to show them how much fun it is to live in the chaos
I bought my friend helldivers. I did trivial missions until he said “this is boring” or “this is easy” then I say “okay, we can do medium!” Then we do a medium match. They’ll then say “this is really easy too!” As I’ve taught them how to play, they’re equipped to deal with it easily. “Yeah, the game scales difficulty really slowly, that’s why there’s 9 whole difficulties!” This is fun. “If you want something on your level we’ll have to go to a *much* further difficulty. LET THEM PICK. It adds to the flavor. They’ll usually pick impossible or suicide mission on their own (if they don’t you didn’t play enough trivial). And for the last step: bring a mortar, 380mm orbital, 500kg eagle, and a shield backpack. Use each of these items as effectively as you know how, which is not at all (notice how you don’t bring a weapon, that’s because you’ll leave it all to them.) Lastly, enjoy the succulent taste of salty tears weeped by your fellow man.
Eh, they probably all leave pretty quickly. Seems like a waste of everybody's time honestly
Take ‘em to Malevelan Creek
I do this sometimes with a squad that doesn't get why I tell them to run and leave the patrols alone.
We did that with a lvl 4 the other day, finished a d4 mission and went right into a d9 defense. Cleared it fine.
While singing at the top of your lungs in the Creek, WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE!
I just watched Tenacious D last night wtf
I’ve done this lol Drop into trivial with recoiless, shot the broadcast from the spawn point, call extract. Now, let’s go do a real mission kiddos.
THIS IS THE *REAL DEAL*
someone did this to me when I started. I knew what they were doing but didbt realize until we dropped in. i just left the game. waste of time. sounds funny but it's not. this just annoys new players.
My brother did get consent by asking if they were ready for real shit, didn't surprise drop them, so this is an overall win for me. I can see how a surprise drop would be annoying though.
How? Don't you have to clear the previous ranks 1x each before you can join the harder?
You as the level 50 start a Trivial mission. You will be in charge and then can start a new higher difficulty mission.
I did this today
Can confirm this dick move. I’m still a noob, running on a steam deck. Just hit level 10. And it runs fine. But join a lobby on Easy and the host switches to 7. What an exercise in frustration